BJO at a glance
TREATING OCULAR TRAUMA IN RURAL NEPAL
Ocular trauma is a major cause of ocular blindness throughout the world. In a study from rural Nepal Khatry and coworkers demonstrate the detrimental effects of delayed care or care outside of a specialty eye clinic. They stressed that for optimal visual outcomes patients who are injured in a rural setting should recognise the injury and seek early care at a specialty eye care facility. Their findings, however, suggest that trained non-ophthalmologists may be able to clinically manage many eye injuries encountered in a rural setting in the developing world. See p 456
THE PROBLEM OF ECCENTRIC FIXATION IN PATIENTS WITH CENTRAL SCOTOMA
In adults, and even more so in children, it has been demonstrated …
